Historical Fiction Allen, Hervey: Anthony Adverse (1933); v1; 23 Jan 2020

[Pulpmeister]

An illegitimate child, born in the Auvergne in France in 1770, raised in Livorno in Italy, Anthony Adverse is apprenticed to a merchant, travels extensively between the new world and the old.

The novel follows his rises and falls, his brief ventures in the slave trade, and larger ventures high finance, his marriages and disasters, to his final adventures in Mexico.

A bestseller in its day, over 800 pages in hardback, 550,000 words, so vast that the movie covers only a part of it.

It was offered as a 3-volume novel, or as a massive single volume. A postwar Paperback edition was published in 3 volumes.

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[crich70]

over 800 pages in hardback,

Sounds like a real monster of a novel. Not something that would have been easy to just carry around while travelling.

[Pulpmeister]

My family had a copy when I was young. I never read it (couldn't even lift it!)

Bigger than Ben-Hur; bigger than "Gone With the Wind". Maybe the e-book will be easier to cope with. Now much does a byte weigh?

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Pulpmeister

My family had a copy when I was young. I never read it (couldn't even lift it!)

Bigger than Ben-Hur; bigger than "Gone With the Wind". Maybe the e-book will be easier to cope with. Now much does a byte weigh?